Human skin/SCID mouse chimeras as an in vivo model for human cutaneous mast cell hyperplasia

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 102-107

  Christofidou Solomidou, Melpo ^a   Longley, B Jack ^b   Whitaker Menezes, Diana ^c   Albelda, Steven M ^a   Murphy, George F ^c,d  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Jefferson Alumni Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Mastocytosis; Stem cell factor; Xenografts

Indexed keywords

CD1 ANTIGEN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CHYMASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; XENOGRAFT;

EID: 0030746706     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12276733     Document Type: Article

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